Ezequiel Reficco

ESCP Business School | ESCP · Department of Management

We analyzed how business schools in Latin America, Africa, and Asia internalized responsible management education. Nine hypotheses grounded in the relevant scholarly literature were tested. Data were analyzed using Multiple Correspondence Analysis. Results show that B-schools were subject to strong stakeholders’ pressures: the higher those pressure...

Does responsible leadership matter when assembling an inclusive supply chain at the Base-of-the-Pyramid (BOP)? Current literature implicitly assumes that it does not. BOP scholars initially focused on the importance of shaping innovative and disruptive offerings, with radically improved price–performance ratios. Subsequent studies tended to focus o...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to identify how the value dynamics of the freemium business model (BM) play out in a social enterprise. Design/methodology/approach We draw on a multiple case study of two social enterprises –one nonprofit (Aravind Eyecare) in Asia and one for-profit in Latin America (Biodent)– to analyze the implications of app...

Back in 2007 and under the auspices of former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the UN Global Compact, the “Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) initiative were launched. The PRME agenda was conceived as a call to action, based on six principles (PRME, 2019), of which the first three are of particular relevance for this article...

Nonprofit organizations (NPO) have suffered from two interrelated bottlenecks: lack of funds and difficulties to grow and operate at scale. Business model innovation (BMI) has been found to be important to overcome those bottlenecks, but the extant literature is limited and lacks a solid empirical foundation. To explore this topic, we conducted a r...

In our research, we examine the efforts made by Latin American business schools in the last decade to deliver a value-based education. We carry out a survey with a sample of faculty members and program directors from the whole region. We find that societal demands influenced the direction of managerial education toward values and social responsibil...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the extent to which hope and perceived goal attainment can be developed in subsistence entrepreneurs through the right training tools. Design/methodology/approach A longitudinal study of a subsistence entrepreneurship training program in three Central American countries was carried out. Participant...

The purpose of this article is to advance research on sustainable innovation through a business model (hereafter, BM) perspective. We consider the BM as a boundary-spanning system that encompasses various firms, in which value is created, exchanged and captured. More specifically, we look at the changes called for by the imperative of sustainable d...

Successful cases of base of the pyramid (BoP) ventures in large corporations remain hard to find. The BoP literature has identified external and (to a lesser extent) internal barriers to implementation. However, this literature has treated barriers as isolated and discrete elements, overlooking the fact that most often those are integrated as part...

ABSTRACT Social business deals with economic organizations oriented to social value creation. It is a new concept integrating multiple dimensions and meanings, including managerial experiences of public, private and non-profit organizations. Social business includes contributions from corporate social responsibility, non-profit management, social e...

Latin America's deteriorating socio-environmental conditions and widely publicized corruption scandals have in recent years led concerned citizens to expect business to play a more constructive role in society. How did Latin American business schools react to societal demands for a rounder education? What adjustments in content and pedagogical meth...

Las investigaciones publicadas no son concluyentes sobre la influencia de la responsabilidad social empresarial (RSE) sobre el comportamiento de los consumidores. Esta investigación examina la relación entre la RSE y habilidades empresariales (HE) para los consumidores de Bogotá. Asimismo, se estimó su disposición a pagar generada por la presencia...

Management of different types of partnerships plays a decisive role in company performance. Complex business ventures, such as those created to serve low-income populations, usually include both cross-and same-sector partnerships. However, the initial diversity featured in these alliance portfolios diminishes as companies take their ventures up to...

Soft OR tools have increasingly been used to support the strategic development of companies at operational and managerial levels. However, we still lack OR applications that can be useful in dealing with the “implementation gap”, understood as the scarcity of resources available to organizations seeking to align their existing processes and structu...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the formative potential of the case method on MBA students’ “civility” – the procedural dimension of the ethics field. While a robust literature has focussed on the impact of teaching ethics (content) on students’ behavior, to-date no study has explored the link between the pedagogy used (method) an...

Contextualización sobre la responsabilidad social corporativa en América Latina y sus perspectivas futuras

La versión española de este artículo se puede encontrar en: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2172449The first generations of writings about the “base of the pyramid” rested on the premise that big companies are better positioned to face this market, to have the financial muscle, distribution channels and technological sophistication and management to meet...

The English version of this paper can be found at http://ssrn.com/abstract=2185002Las primeras generaciones de escritos sobre la llamada “base de la pirámide” se apoyaron en la premisa de que las grandes empresas están mejor posicionadas para encarar ese mercado, al contar con el músculo financiero, los canales de distribución y la sofisticación te...

The Inclusive Business (IB) approach challenges some of our traditional views on the role of the market in the fight against the poverty – among them, the idea that this fight can only be pursued through pure and disinterested altruism. Though solidarity is a fundamental value to build more equitable societies, there are good reasons why we might w...

What comes to mind when, in the context of the business sector and its social responsibilities, we think about 'philanthropy'? Along the years, this term has passed to mean different things for different people. We all got accustomed to it, but while some businesses continue to embrace it as a legitimate basis for their social endeavors, others see...

The array of terminology that refers to the link between corporations and society can be very confusing for the non-specialist. Terms such as corporative citizenship, corporate social responsibility, philanthropy and sustainability, among others, refer to research literatures and communities of practice that are related, yet different. Over the pas...

http://perfectaweb.com/ojs244/index.php?journal=revista&page=article&op=view&path%5B%5D=550 ABSTRACT In the 1960s, businesses and nonprofits trundled along on separate tracks, having little to do with each other. Over the past three decades, however, the paths of business and nonprofits have not just crossed; they have converged. Nonprofits and bus...

Objetivos. La investigación pretende determinar la incidencia que tiene la Responsabilidad Social Empresarial en el comportamiento de compra y en la disposición a pagar de los consumidores por atributos de este tipo en los productos que consumen. Diseño. Se implementó un diseño experimental mediante la metodología del Choice Based Conjoint (CBC). D...

Recent experiences of inclusive business in Latin America place more emphasis on good intentions than on real, sustainable innovations. If this trend was confirmed, it would be bad news for both the poor and the investors behind these initiatives. This article reviews this trend and suggests some avenues to value creating innovations that help both...

The German version of this article can be found at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1490345 Corporate Social Entrepreneurship (CSE) is a process aimed at enabling business to develop more advanced and powerful forms of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). CSE emerges from and builds on three other conceptual frameworks: entrepreneurship, corporate entre...

Despite progress made in recent years, poverty and inequality continue to burden developing countries. The issue is not only ethical and political, but also economic: poverty in emerging countries is both a cause and outcome of economic stagnation. The current financial crisis has only made the problem worse. Across Latin America, interest in inclu...

Corporate Social Entrepreneurship befähigt Unternehmen, wirksamere Formen von Corporate Social Responsibility zu entwickeln. Das nützt sowohl der Gesellschaft als auch dem Unternehmen

Resulta fácil confundirse con la variada terminología que gira alrededor del vínculo entre empresa y sociedad. Expresiones como filantropía corporativa, responsabilidad social, sostenibilidad, negocios inclusivos y otras aluden a campos de acción e investigación vinculados, aunque diferentes. En los últimos años, el concepto de Empresa y Sociedad (...

En los años sesenta, las empresas y las organizaciones de la sociedad civil (OSC) recorrían sendas separadas, y tenían poco que ver entre sí. En las últimas tres décadas, sin embargo, los senderos de ambos mundos no sólo se han cruzado sino que han convergido. Empresas y OSC convergen en la naturaleza del valor que crean, en los grupos de interés q...

Chile's largest wine producer faces a price versus value positioning problem. Its highest quality wines are not priced competitively at retail because 'Made in Chile' connotes great value and low price.

The idea that business can play a role in alleviating poverty has caught the imagination of academics and practitioners alike. An emerging consensus points to the critical importance of partnerships in market initiatives addressed to the base of the pyramid (BOP). But despite the calls for cross sector partnerships in BOP initiatives, our collectiv...

The traditional philanthropy practiced by your company is good. But you may be squandering an opportunity to create true strategic value, both social and financial, through your relationships with civil society.

In the 1960s, businesses and nonprofits trundled along on separate tracks, having little to do with each other. Over the past three decades, however, the paths of business and nonprofits have not just crossed; they have converged. Nonprofits and businesses are converging in the nature of the value they create, the stakeholders they manage, the stru...

In the last years we have seen a great deal of interest around the possibility of achieving social inclusion through market based initiatives. If there is one idea that comes across clearly in empirical studies on the subject is the critical importance of partnerships. Engagement with the poor requires the construction of a new interface between th...

Social Entrepreneurship' is a term that has come to be applied to the activities of grass-roots activists, NGOs, policy makers, international institutions, and corporations, amongst others, which address a range of social issues in innovative and creative ways. Themed around the emerging agendas for developing new, sustainable models of social sect...

In the last years we have seen a great deal of interest around the possibility of achieving social inclusion through market based initiatives. If there is one idea that comes across clearly in empirical studies on the subject is the critical importance of partnerships. Engagement with the poor requires the construction of a new interface between th...

The core purpose of social enterprise is to create value for the betterment of society. This aim lies at the center of the framework and is the end toward which all other elements in the framework must contribute. Greater alignment of these elements with the central purpose produces higher organizational coherence which contributes to superior perf...

En América Latina y el Caribe está aún muy arraigada la idea de que las empresas deben dedicarse exclusivamente a las actividades económicas, mientras que el Estado, las organizaciones no gubernamentales o la Iglesia son las instituciones encargadas del bienestar social. Este libro presenta otro enfoque, con diferentes casos de colaboración entre e...

The traditional philanthropy practiced by your company is good. But you may be squandering an opportunity to create true strategic value, both social and financial, through your relationships with civil society.

Proceedings on the Conference on CSR, celebrated at Miami